..ping ping ping..
ping... what is this mystery program, welp it is more than you
think it is... on the out side, it looks like a helpless little program
that tells you if you are lagging... but on the inside it is a lean,
mean, destruction machine...
the average doesn't even really know what ping is, and most
everyone else thinks that all it does is tell you how bad you are
lagging... welp, it is much more than that... it has the power, to
crash, or even reset a computer when it is used right...
the way that ping works is simple.. it sends a packet to the
ip address(computer).. when the computer that you sent it to gets the
packet, it sends it back.. when the packet gets back to the originating
computer, the round trip time is then calculated, and that will tell you
how bad that you or they are lagged...
the beautiful thing about this is that the packet size can be
varied to be any where from like 24 bytes, or to like 64k (64528 to be
exact).. 64528 is supposed to be the largest packet that you can send...
but there are a few ping programs out there that will let you send a
packet size larger than that... having program like this can be of great
advantage; this is what will allow you to crash some computers... since
it is supposed to be impossible to send a packet greater than 64528, the
computer that is recieving this packet doesn't know what to do with the
extra packets, it causes overflows and stuff like that that will make the
computer to halt, or reset...
since alot of computers have patches for it now, windows 95 patch
1, linux has this fixed in 2.0.24 and up... there are still some
computers that are vulnerable, but not all that many.. although, if
someone is pissing you off, and you know what they are on a ppp or slip
account, you can do what is called a ICMP or ping flood... what you will
do is to get a bunch of ping programs going, sending larger packets
(around 1k is good) over and over and over, maxing out there modem, and
unfortunalty yours also... but this will piss them off, because they
aren't going to be able to do anything because there computer is too busy
to do anything else but reply to the ping packets, if they are on irc,
most likely they are going to be kicked off because they are unable to
reply to the ping from irc, and it will time out.. the most beautiful
part about all this, is there is almost no way that you can disable pings
=) execpt with like firewalls and all that tre leet stuff..
use this information wisely, and try not to piss to many people
off... have fun..
-lagger